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past exhibitions

January 13 to April 1, 2012

Chance Operations2

Rodney Konopaki, Rhonda Neufeld

Since 2007, Rodney Konopaki and Rhonda Neufeld, both instructors at Emily Carr University, have explored the act and meaning of collaborative art-making through projects which involved sharing, interfering, walking, observing, recording, reflection and dialogue. Underlying Konopaki and Neufeld’s collaboration has been a fascination with the collision of conscious aesthetic decisions and ‘chance operation’, interpreted perhaps most famously by John Cage, but reaching back to Dada and Duchamp. In that spirit, this exhibition explores the result of their collaboration over a three year period as the artists experimented with different drawing and printmaking techniques.